Fugitive Father Arrested After Arrival At Airport

MIAMI -- FBI agents arrested an Argentine man on Friday on charges linked to parental kidnapping as he arrived in Miami aboard a plane with his three children, officials said.

Authorities said Clemente Julian Tellechea, 50, most recently of Buenos Aires, was apprehended as he stepped off an Eastern Airlines flight at Miami International Airport about 6 a.m.

He was accompanied by his three children: Jesse, 4, Auria, 6, and Maiten, 9. All three had been taken from their mother`s Colorado home more than a year ago, officials said.

William Wells, FBI special agent in charge, said Tellechea is charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for parental kidnapping in the Sept. 14, 1986, disappearance of his three children from their mother`s home.

Wells said Tellechea picked up the three children at the home of their mother, Jane, in Delta, Colo., on the pretext of buying them shoes. He then took the children to Buenos Aires the following day, Wells said.

Later, a felony warrant was issued charging the father with interfering in a custody case. U.S. Magistrate Jill Clifton issued an unlawful flight to avoid prosecution warrant, charging him with fleeing Colorado, where he is wanted on charges of parental kidnapping.